After fashion designer Tara Subkoff was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor last summer, friends of the uninsured 36-year-old held a fundraiser sponso...
Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
I used to say I was politically pro-choice but personally pro-life, meaning I would never consider having an abortion. That was until I was faced with the choice of carrying a baby to term myself.
Richard Walden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Citizenship in this country should be a two-way street. We should all pay our fair share of taxes but in return should expect our medical needs met so we can contribute to our family and society.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.
Irasema Garza | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Just as poverty disproportionately impacts women, so too do the flaws in an out-dated health insurance system. Worse, these inequities fuel each other.
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The House Health bill just throws good money after the bad. And because costs will keep rising, there is now a danger that people will conclude reform is impossible, when in reality, we still haven't really tried.
New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
The health care debate of 2009 has had so many moving parts that it has sometimes seemed impossible to follow. The crisis behind the debate, though, i...
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a ...
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Some had the audacity to hope that the Republicans would work with the President to solve health care. Now, it's clear they are putting insurance industry profits above the health of America's families.
Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Eyes & Ears
One of the big questions about the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and interested citizens. We're seeing signs that the answer is yes.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
At the end of August I had a rash. I was visiting a relative at Southampton Hospital on Long Island and decided to stop at the Emergency Room to have it checked out.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
For today, we need to recognize that we spend more money in America on health care than any other country by a factor of two or three -- and we are not getting the consistent, high-quality care we should be getting for all the money we are spending
Deborah Calla | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
Why -- when we are faced with the possibility of losing our life or the life of a loved one -- do we also have to fight with an insurance company which is there to take care of our medical needs in the first place?
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...
Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
At the current pace, on my 54th birthday I can look forward to spending over $1 million a year on healthcare (but my bank will be broken many years earlier).
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The Post Office, as a public entity, has an objective: to provide an essential service to the public at the lowest possible cost. This public option looks pretty good.
Susan L. Travis | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Somehow in our search for reasonable health care, my only sibling was caught in a vortex of "policies and procedures" designed to minimize costs and avoid accountability.
health.yahoo.com | Marilynn Marchione | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used...
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...
Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If you break your pledge and vote for a health reform bill without this minimally robust version of the public option, you've ensured that even with a Democratic majority, all "reform" will be limited by your Blue Dog colleagues.
Chicago Sun-Times | SANDRA GUY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago
Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that ar...
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
In the end, Reid doesn't need 60 votes, and the stronger the public option the less reform costs. These two realities need to be repeated until they penetrate the debate.
Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Style